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The 17th Chapter
And Jehosaphat his son reigned
in his stead and was mightier than Israel. And he put soldiers in
all the strong cities of Juda, and set rulers both in the land of
Juda and also in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had won.
And the Lord was with Jehosaphat, because he walked in the old ways
of his father David, and sought not Baals: But sought the Lord God
of his father and walked in his commandments and not after the
doings of Israel. Therefore the Lord stablished the kingdom in his
hand and all Juda brought him presents, that he became exceeding
rich and glorious. And his heart was courageous in the ways of the
Lord, and he put down yet more of the hillaltars and groves out of
Juda.
And the third year of his reign he sent of his Lords: Benhail,
Abdiah, Zachariah, Nathanael and Michaah to teach in the cities of
Juda: and with them Semeiah, Nathaniah, Zabadiah, Asahel, Semiramoth,
Jehonathan, Adoniah, Thobiah and Thobodoniah Levites: and with them
Elisama and Joram priests. And they taught in Juda, and had the book
of the law with them, and went about throughout all the cities of
Juda and taught the people.
And the fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the
lands that were round about Juda, that they durst not war with
Jehosaphat. And the Philistines brought Jehosaphat gifts and tribute
silver. And thereto the Arabians brought him of sheep, seven
thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven
hundred he goats. And so Jehosaphat prospered and grew up on high.
And he built in Juda, castles and store cities. And he had great
substance in the cities of Juda, and fighting men and men of might
in Jerusalem.
And this is the order in the houses of their fathers, of the
captains over thousands in Juda: Ednah the captain and with him of
fighting men three hundred thousand. And next to him Jehohanan a
captain and with him two hundred and eighty thousand. And by his
side Amaziah the son of Zechri willing unto the Lord, and with him
two hundred thousand mighty men. And of the children of Benjamin,
Eliada was a man of might, and had with him armed with bows and
shields two hundred thousand. And by his side Jehosabad with whom
were an hundred and eighty thousand trimmed for war. These waited on
the king, besides those which the king had put in strong cities
throughout all Juda.
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The 18th Chapter
And Jehosaphat became very rich
and glorious, and joined affinity with Ahab. And after certain years
he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab slew sheep and oxen
plenteously for him and for the people that came with him, and
entreated him to go up unto Ramoth in Galaad. And Ahab king of
Israel said to Jehosaphat king of Juda: wilt thou go with me to
Ramoth in Galaad? And he answered him, I will be as thou, and my
people shall be as thine and we will be with thee in the war.
But Jehosaphat said unto the king of Israel: ask I pray thee
the word of the Lord. And the king of Israel gathered together of
the Prophets four hundred men, and said unto them: shall we go to
Ramoth in Galaad to fight, or shall I cease? And they said, go: the
Lord shall deliver it into the kings hand. And Jehosaphat said, is
there yet here never a Prophet more of the Lords, that we might ask
of him? And the king of Israel said to Jehosaphat, there is yet one,
to ask the Lord by him: But I hate him, for he never prophesieth me
good, but always evil, one Micheah the son of Jemla. And Jehosaphat
said: let not the king say so.
Then the king of Israel called one of his chamberlains and
said: fetch hither quickly Micheah the son of Jemla. And the king of
Israel and Jehosaphat king of Juda sat either of them on his seat in
their apparel, in a threshing floor beside the gate of Samaria, and
all the Prophets prophesying before them. And one Zedekiah the son
of Chananah made him horns of iron and said, thus saith the Lord:
with these thou shalt winnow Siria until thou hast brought them to
nought. And all the Prophets prophesied even so saying: Go up to
Ramoth in Galaad and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into the
hand of the king.
And the messenger that went to call Micheah, spake to him
saying: behold, the words of the Prophets are pleasant to the king
with one assent, let thy words I pray thee, be like one of theirs,
and speak that which is pleasant. And Micheah said: as truly as the
Lord liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak. And when he
was come to the king, the king said to him: Micheah, shall we go to
Ramoth in Galaad to fight, or shall I be in rest? And he answered:
go ye and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into your hands.
But the king said to him: how often times shall I adjure thee that
thou say nothing but truth to me, in the name of the Lord.
Then he said: I see all Israel scattered in the mountains, as
sheep that have no shepherd. And the Lord said: these have no
master, let them return every man to his house in peace. Then said
the king of Israel to Jehosaphat, did I not tell thee, that he would
not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
And he answered: therefore hear ye the word of the Lord. I saw
the Lord sit upon his seat, and all the company of heaven standing
on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said: who shall
deceive Ahab king of Israel, that he may go and be overthrown at
Ramoth in Galaad. And while one said thus and another that, there
came out a spirit and stood before the Lord and said: I will deceive
him. And the Lord said to him, how? And he said: I will go out and
will be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets. And the
Lord said, thou shalt deceive him and shalt prevail, go out and do
even so. And now behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the
mouths of all these thy prophets, and yet the Lord hath spoken evil
against thee. And Zedekiah the son of Chananah, went to and smote
Micheah upon the cheek, and said: by what way went the spirit of the
Lord from me, to speak in thee? And Micheah said: thou shalt see the
day when thou shalt run from chamber to chamber, for to hide
thyself. Then said the king of Israel, take ye Micheah and deliver
him to Amon the governor of city, and to Joas the kings son and say,
thus saith the king: put this fellow in prison, and feed him with
bread and water of tribulation, until I come again in peace. And
Micheah said: if thou come again in peace, then hath not the Lord
spoken in me. And Micheah said moreover, hearken to ye people every
one of you. And so the king of Israel and Jehosaphat went up to
Ramoth in Galaad. Then said the king of Israel to Jehosaphat: change
thee and get thee to battle, but see thou have thine own apparel
upon thee. And the king of Israel changed himself, and they went to
battle. But the king of Siria commanded the captains of his chariots
saying: see that ye fight not against small or great, save against
the king of Israel only.
And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehosaphat, they had
*went he had been the king of Israel, and therefore compassed about
him, to fight. But Ichosaphat cried out, and the Lord help him, and
God *tysed them away from him. For when the captains of the chariots
perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again
from him. And a certain man drew his bow ignorantly and smote the
king of Israel between the Joints of his *habergeon. And he said to
the chariot man, turn thine hand and carry me out of the host, for I
am hurt. And the battle arose that day. Howbeit the king of Israel
continued standing in his chariot against the Sirians until evening.
And about the *son going down he died.
*went (maybe wete knew,
thought?)
*tysed (enticed?..."in" ticed ?) *habergeon: short sleeveless coat
of chain mail armor. *son: sonne exactly as found in the text other
places see sun spelled sunne.
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The 19th Chapter
And Jehosaphat king of Juda
returned to his house safe and sound to Jerusalem. And Jehu the son
of Hanani the sear, went out against him and said to king Jehosaphat:
oughtest thou to help the wicked, and to love them that hate the
Lord. In this verify is the wrath of the Lord upon thee.
Neverthelater there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast
put away groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to
seek God. And as Jehosaphat dwelt at Jerusalem, he went to again and
went among the people from Bersabe to mount Ephraim, and brought
them again unto the Lord God of their fathers. And he set Judges in
the land, throughout all the strong cities of Juda, city by city,
and said to the Judges take heed what ye do: for ye be not Judges in
the law of man, but of God, which is with you in the words of the
law. Wherefore let the fear of the Lord be with you, and take heed
and do it. For there is no unrighteousness in the Lord our God nor
regarding of persons, nor taking of rewards.
Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehosaphat set of the Levites and of
the priests and of the ancient heads of Israel, over the customs of
the Lord and causes of strife. And then they returned again to
Jerusalem. And he charged them saying: do even so in the fear of the
Lord with truth and pure heart. And whatsoever come to you of your
brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, law,
commandment, ordinances and customs: see that ye warn them, that
they trespass not against the Lord, lest wrath come upon you and on
your brethren. Thus do and ye shall not offend. And see here Amariah
the priest which is head over you in all matters of the Lord, and
Zabadiah the son of Ismael a ruler in the house of Juda, he is over
all causes concerning the king, with officers of the Levites before
you. Take courage to you and go upon it, and the Lord shall be with
the good.
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The 20th Chapter
After that came the children of
Moab and the children of Ammon and with them the Ammonites against
Jehosaphat to battle. And there came that told Jeshosaphat saying:
there cometh a great multitude against thee from the other side the
sea out of Siria. And see they be in Hasason Thamar which is Engadi.
And Jehosaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord, and
proclaimed fasting throughout all Juda. And Juda gathered themselves
together to ask counsel of the Lord. And thereto there came out of
all the cities of Juda to seek the Lord. And Jehosaphat stood in the
congregation of Juda and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before
the new court and said: Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in
heaven, and reignest not thou on all the kingdoms of the heathen?
And in thine hand is power and might, that no man can stand before
thee. Art not thou our God which didst cast out the inhabiters of
this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of
Abraham thy lover for ever? And they dwelt therein and have built
thee a temple therein unto thy name, and said: when evil cometh upon
us, as the sword of judgement, pestilence or hunger: then if we
stand before this house and before thee (for thy name is in this
house) and shall cry unto thee in our tribulation, thou shalt hear
and help.
And now behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir,
by which thou wouldest not let Israel go, when they came out of
Egypt: but they departed from them and destroyed them not. And see,
how they reward us, to come for to cast us out of thy possession
which thou hast possessed us with all. O' our God, wilt thou not
judge them? for we have no might against this great company that
cometh against us. Neither know we what to do: but our eyes be unto
thee.
And as all Juda stood before the Lord with their young ones,
their wives and their children: the spirit of the Lord came upon
Jahasiel the son of Zachariah the son of Banaiah the son of Jeiel
the son of Mathaniah a Levite of the sons of Asaph, even as he was
in the midst of the congregation. And he said: hearken all Juda and
the inhabiters of Jerusalem, and also king Jehosaphat. Thus saith
the Lord unto you: be not afeard or faint hearted by reason of this
great multitude. For the war is not yours, but Gods. And tomorrow ye
shall go down to them: see, they come up at Zis, and ye shall meet
them in the flags of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel.
Moreover it belongeth not to you for to fight this quarrel: but step
forth and stand and behold the help of the Lord which is with you:
fear not, nor let your heart fail you, O ye of Juda and of
Jerusalem. Tomorrow go out to them: for the Lord is with you.
And Jehosaphat bowed himself with his face to the city, and
all Juda and the inhabiters of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, to
bow themselves unto the Lord. And the Levites and the children of
the Cahathites and of the Corahites stood up, to praise the Lord God
of Israel with a loud voice on high. And so they arose early in the
morning and get them out unto the wilderness of Thekua. And as they
went out Jehosaphat stood and said: hear me Juda and the inhabiters
of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, and so shall ye
continue: and believe his prophets and so shall ye prosper. And he
gave the people counsel, and set the singers of the Lord and them
that praised in holy apparel, to go out before the army and to say:
praise the Lord for his mercy lasteth ever. And what time they began
to laud and praise, then the Lord set layers await against the
children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, to destroy them utterly
and to wipe them out. And when they had made an end of the
inhabiters of Seir, then they help to destroy each other.
And when Juda came to Mazphah in the wilderness, they looked
unto the multitude. And behold, they were dead carcasses fallen to
the earth, and none escaped. And Jehosaphat and his people went to
rob away the spoil of them and found among them abundance of goods
and raiment and of pleasant Jewels, and caught from them more than
they could carry away: so that they were three days in gathering of
the spoil, it was so much. And the fourth day they assembled in the
valley of blessing, for there they blessed the Lord. And therefore
they called the name of the said place the valley of blessing unto
this day. And so all the men of Juda and Jerusalem returned and
Jehosaphat among the thickest of them, for to go again to Jerusalem
with gladness: for the Lord had made them to rejoice of their
enemies. And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and
trumpets, even unto the house of the Lord. And the fear of God fell
in the kingdoms of all lands, when they had heard that the Lord
fought against the enemies of Israel. And so the realm of Jehosaphat
was in tranquillity: for his God had given him rest on every side.
And Jehosaphat reigned upon Juda, and was thirty five years
old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty five years in
Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Asuba the daughter of Silhi. And
he walked in the way of Asa his father and bowed not therefrom, to
do that was pleasant in the sight of the Lord. How be it they put
not down the hillaltars, neither did the people yet prepare their
hearts unto the God of their fathers. The rest of the acts of
Jehosaphat first and last are written in the works of Jehu the son
of Hanani, which noted them in the book of the kings of Israel.
After this Jehosaphat king of Juda joined himself with Ohoziah
king of Israel, which was a wicked doer. And he coupled himself with
him, to make ships to go to Tharsis. And they made the ships in
Azion Gaber. And Elieser the son of Dodanah of Maresa prophesied
against Jehosaphat: saying: because thou hast joined thyself with
Ohoziah the Lord hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken
that they were not able to go to Tharsis.
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The 21st Chapter
Jehosaphat laid him to rest with
his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David
and Jehoram his son reigned in his room: which Jehoram had other
brethren, sons of Jehosaphat, Asariah, Jehiel, Zachariah, Asariah,
Michael and Sephatia. All these were the sons of Jehosapaht king of
Juda. And their father gave them many great gifts in silver, gold
and other precious things with strong cities in Juda: but the
kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the eldest. And when
Jehoram was up upon the kingdom of his father and settled, he slew
all his other brethren with the sword, and diverse of the Lords of
Israel thereto. Jehoram was thirty two years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked in the
ways of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab (for a
daughter of Ahab was his wife) and he wrought evil in the eyes of
the Lord. How be it the Lord would not destroy the house of David,
because of the covenant that he had made with David, as he promised
to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
In his days the Edomites departed from under the hand of Juda
and made them a king. And Jehoram went forth with his lords and all
his chariots with him and rose by night and laid on the Edomites.
Which compassed him in and the captains of his chariots. And so Edom
departed from under the hand of Juda unto this day. That same time
also did lobnah depart from under his power, because he left the
Lord God of his fathers. Moreover he made hillaltars in the
mountains of Juda, and cause the inhabiters of Jerusalem to commit
adultery, and he thrust Juda out of the way.
And there came a writing to him from Eliah the prophet of this
tenor. Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father: because thou
walkedst not in the ways of Jehosaphat thy father and in the ways of
Asa king of Juda, but walkedst in the ways of Asa king of Israel and
hast made Juda and the dwellers of Jerusalem go awhoring, like to
the whoring of the house of Ahab, and hast thereto slain thy
brethren that were thy fathers house, which were better than thou:
Therefore behold the Lord will smite thee with a mighty plague in
thy folk, in thy children, in thy wives and in thy goods. And thou
shalt have much disease through infirmity in thy bowels, until thy
bowels fall out by reason of thy sickness, day by day.
And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the
Philistines and the Arabians that border on the black moors. Which
came against Juda and all to tare the land, and carried away all the
substance that was found in the kings house, and thereto his sons
and his wives: so that there was never a son left him save Jehoahaz
his youngest son. And after all that, the Lord smote him in his
bowels with an incurable disease. And in process of time, even about
the end of two years, his guts fell out by reason of his sickness:
and so he died of evil diseases. But they made him no bonfire, like
the bonfires of his fathers. When he began to reign, he was twenty
seven years old, and reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he walked
not pleasantly and they buried him in the city of David: but not in
the sepulcher of the kings.
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The 22nd Chapter
And the inhabiters of Jerusalem
made Ohoziah his youngest son king in his stead. For the men of war
that came with the Arabians in the host, had slain all his elder
sons. And so Ohoziah the son of Jehoram king of Juda, was made king.
Two and forty years old was he when he began to reign, and reigned
one year in Jerusalem. His mothers name was Athaliah the daughter of
Amri. And he walked also in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his
mother was his counsellor for to do evil. Wherefore he did that
displeased the Lord like to the house of Ahab, for they were his
counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction. And
he also walked after their counsel. And Jehoram son of Ahab king of
Israel went to fight with Hazael king of Siria at Ramoth in Galaad:
and they of Ramoth wounded him. Wherefore he returned to be healed
in Jezreel of the wounds which were given him at Ramoth, when he
fought with Hazael king of Siria. And Ohoziah the son of Jeroam king
of Juda went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because
he was diseased. For it was thrust into Ohoziah of God to go to
Jehoram, and that when he was come, he should go out with Jehoram
against Jehu the son of Namsi whom the Lord had anointed to destroy
the house of Ahab.
And as Jehu was executing justice upon the house of Ahab. He
found the Lords of Juda and the sons of the brethren of Ohoziah that
waited on Ohoziah, and he slew them. And he sought Ohoziah, and they
caught him where he was hid in Samaria, and brought him to Jehu. And
when they had slain him they buried him: because (said they) he was
the son of Jehosaphat which sought the Lord with all his heart. And
there was none of the house of Ohoziah that could obtain to be king.
For Athaliah the mother of Ohoziah, when she saw her son was
dead, arose and spake with all the seed of the kingdom of the house
of Juda. But Jehosabeath the daughter of the king took Jehoas the
son of Ohoziah and stole him from among the kings sons that were
slain, and put him and his nurse in a sleeping chamber. And so
Jehosabeath the daughter of king Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the
priest (because she was the sister of Ohoziah) hid him from Athaliah
that she slew him not. And he was with them hid in the house of God
six years. And Athaliah reigned over the land.
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The 23rd Chapter
And in the seventh year Jehoiada
took heart, and made a bond with the captains of hundreds: Azariah
the son of Jehoram, Ismael the son of Johanan, Azariah the son of
Obed, Maaciah the son of Adaiah and Elisaphat the son of Zechri. And
they went about in Juda and gathered the Levites out of all the
cities of Juda and the ancient heads of Israel: and they came to
Jerusalem. And all the congregation made a bond with the king in the
house of God. And Jehoiada said to them: behold, the kings son must
reign over the children of David, as the Lord hath said.
This it is therefore that ye shall do. The third part of you
priests and Levites which come in the Sabbath day, shall keep the
doors and another third part shall be in the kings house and another
third part shall be in the gate of the foundation, and all the
people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord. And there
shall none come into the house of the Lord, save the priests and the
Levites that minister. They shall go in, for they are holy: and all
the people shall keep the watch of the Lord. And the Levites shall
compass the king round about, and every man his weapon in his hand:
and whatsoever other man come into the house of the Lord, he shall
die for it, and they shall be with the king, as he cometh in and as
he goeth out.
And the Levites and all Juda did in all things as Jehoiada the
priest commanded, and took every man his men: both them that came in
and them that went out the sabbath day: for Jehoiada the priest did
let none of the companies depart. And Jehoiada the priest delivered
to the captains of hundreds spears and shields and bucklers that
pertained to king David and were in the house of God. And he set all
the people and every man his weapon in his hand, from the right
corner of the house to the left corner of the house, along by the
altar and the house round about the king. And they brought out the
kings son and put upon him the crown and the testimony, and made him
king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said: God save the
king.
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she went among the people into the house of the
Lord. And when she saw the king stand at his pillar in the entering,
and the Lords and trumpets about the king, and all the people of the
land rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with
instruments of music teaching to praise. Then she rent her clothes
and cried: treason, treason. And Jehoiada the priest went out with
the captains of hundreds that were appointed to govern the host and
said to them: have her out without the arrays and whosoever
followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said:
slay her not in the house of the Lord. And they laid hands on her,
and when she was come out to the entering of the horsegate in the
kings house, they slew her there.
And Jehoiada made a bond between him and all the people and
the king, to be the Lords people. And all the people went to the
house of Baal and destroyed it, and brake his altars and his images,
and slew Mathan the priest of Baal before the altars. And Jehoiada
put the offices of the house of the Lord in the hands of the priests
the Levites, which David had divided in companies for the house of
the Lord, to offer burntofferings unto the Lord, as it is written in
the law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as it was ordained by
David. And he set porters unto the gates of the house of the Lord,
that none that was unclean in any point should enter in.
And he took the captains of hundreds and the nobles, and the
governors of the people and all the folk of the land, and brought
the king down out of the house of the Lord, and they went through
the high gate in the kings house, and set the king upon the seat of
the kingdom. And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city
was in tranquillity: but they slew Athaliah with the sword.
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The 24th Chapter
Jehoas was
seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years
in Jerusalem. His mothers name was Zebiah of Bersabe. And Jehoas did
that pleased the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. And
Jehoiada gave him two wives, and he begat sons and daughters.
It chanced after that, that Jehoas was minded to mend the
house of the Lord. And upon that he gathered together the priests
and the Levites and said to them: go out through the cities of Juda
and gather of all Israel silver, to strength the house of your God,
year by year, and see that ye haste the thing: howbeit the Levites
were slack. Then the king called Jehoiada that was the chiefest, and
said to him: Why requirest thou not of the Levites to bring in, out
of Juda and Jerusalem the sum appointed by Moses the servant of the
Lord, and by the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of
witness. For wicked Athaliah and her children had broken the house
of God, and had thereto bestowed all the dedicate gifts of the house
of the Lord, about Baals.
Wherefore at the kings commandment, they made a coffer, and
set it at the gate of the house of the Lord: and made proclamation
through Juda and Jerusalem to bring in to the Lord the taxation of
Moses the servant of God, which he set upon Israel in the
wilderness. And the Lords and all the people rejoiced and brought in
and cast into the coffer until it was full. And when the time came
that the chest should be brought in by the hands of the Levites at
the appointment of the king, when they saw that there was much
money: then came the kings scribe and one appointed by the high
priest, and poured out that was in the coffer, and then took it and
carried it to his place again, and thus they did day by day, and
gathered much money.
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to workmen that wrought upon
the house of the Lord, and hired Masons and carpenters to redress
the house of the Lord, and so did they artificers in iron and brass,
to repair the house of the Lord. And the workmen wrought and the
work mended through their hands: and they made the house of God as
it ought to be, and strengthened it. And when they had finished it,
they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and
therewith were made vessels for the house of the Lord: even vessels
to minister withal and to serve for burntofferings as ladies and
vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burntofferings in the
house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada. And Jehoiada
waxed old and full of years and died. And hundred and thirty years
old was he when he died. And they buried him in the city of David
among the kings because he had done good in Israel, and on God and
on his house. And after the death of Jehoiada, came the Lords of
Juda and made obeisance to the king. And then he hearkened unto
them. And so they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers,
and served groves and Images. And then came there wrath upon Juda
and Jerusalem, for this their trespasses sake. Notwithstanding yet
God sent Prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord. And
they testified unto them. But they would not hear.
And the spirit of God came upon Zachariah the son of Jehoiada
the priest, and he stepped up above the people and said to them.
Thus saith God: why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord? ye
shall therefore not prosper, but as ye have forsaken him, so shall
he forsake you. Whereupon they conspired against him and stoned him
with stones, at the commandment of the king: even in the court of
the house of the Lord. And so Jehoas the king remembered not the
kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his
son. And when he died, he said: the Lord see and require a
reckoning.
And when the year was out, the host of the Sirians came
against him: and they came to Juda and Jerusalem, and destroyed all
the Lords of the people from among the people and sent all the spoil
of them unto the king to Damasco. And though the army of Siria came
with a small company of men, yet the Lord delivered a very great
host into their hands, because they had forsaken the Lord God of
their fathers. And thereto they served Jehoas according.
And as soon as they were departed from him, though they left
him in great diseases: yet his own servants conspired against him
for the blood of the children of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him
on his bed. And when he was dead, they buried him in the city of
David: but not in the sepulchers of the kings. And these are they
that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Samaath an Ammonite and
Jehosabad the son of Simrith a Moabite. And his sons and the sum of
the tax that came to him, and the foundation of the house of God,
are written in the story of the book of kings. And Amaziah his son
reigned in his stead. |
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